Comparison

Receipts vs Smart Receipt Scan

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Receipts

Track personal and business finances with this powerful expense tracker. Customize budgets, accounts, and receipt fields. Generate detailed reports and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Income and expense tracking
  • Mileage tracking
  • Customizable budgets and accounts
  • Custom receipt fields
  • Photo, drawing, and voice memo attachments
  • Multi-currency support
  • Detailed financial reports (Excel, PDF, CSV, HTML)
  • Cloud syncing across devices
Features
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*** Featured by Apple in Taxes & Receipts collection *** Track your personal and business income/expenses (including mileage) with Receipts. Receipts is the most customizable and powerful expense tracking app available. Create budgets, accounts, categories, filters, and nine different types of custom receipt fields. Receipts helps you save time when submitting expense reports and during tax season. Add new receipts quickly using the autofill feature. Capture photos, add drawings, record voice memos, and attach files from other apps. Receipt totals may be entered in any currency and are instantly converted to your home currency. Create sophisticated filters based on multiple receipt fields to quickly find your receipts. Browse through graphs to keep track of income and spending. See how much money is spent over time and by account, category, and currency. Generate Excel, PDF, HTML, and CSV reports with attachments. Optionally embed photos and drawings in PDF reports. Specify report names and add custom headers. Select which receipt fields to include and sort/group receipts by any field. Share reports using a variety of options including Box, CloudApp, Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Drive. Keep track of business, family, or group income/expenses by syncing to the cloud. Enable automatic sync support to keep multiple devices up to date. Import and export receipts (CSV) with attachments to multiple destinations. Overview: - pie and bar graphs for accounts, categories, units, spending over time, custom currency fields, and income/expenses - email, print, and open graphs in other apps Receipts: - add income, expense, or mileage receipts - add receipts in any currency and set account/home currency totals - use autofill to populate new receipts based on previous receipts - add repeating receipts with interval and end date - attach photos, drawings, voice memos, and other files to receipts - rotate, scale, crop, and adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation for receipt photos Reports: - generate Excel, PDF, CSV, and HTML reports with attachments - add custom report headers - select report file names and report names - sort and group report receipts by any field - specify which fields to include and their order - option to embed photos and drawings in PDF reports (1, 2, or 4 per page) - overlay receipt fields on photos and drawings - include links to file attachments (Excel and HTML) - zip report and attachment files - preview report before sending - send reports via email, iTunes File Sharing, WiFi, another app, print, iCloud, Box, CloudApp, Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Drive Settings: - add accounts to manage groups of receipts - use budgets to keep track of spending - create categories and subcategories - select account and category icons (over 450 included) and a tint colour - custom receipt fields including currency, date, list, number, percent, percent total, switch, tags, and text types - create receipt filters using any combination of fields - notifications remind you to add receipts, save backups, and create reports - passcode for keeping financial data secure Data: - keep multiple devices in sync (requires Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive account) - import and export receipts (CSV) with attachments - backup/restore data and settings Note: Receipts is free but limited to 10 receipts. Purchase an in-app upgrade to Pro for unlimited receipts.

About

Smart Receipt Scan

Effortlessly manage personal and business expenses by scanning receipts, tracking reimbursements, and organizing financial data. Export reports in various formats and sync across devices for seamless financial oversight. It also helps track product warranties and gift card expirations.

Highlights
  • Smart receipt scanning
  • Expense and reimbursement tracking
  • PDF/CSV/Excel export
  • iCloud sync
  • Warranty tracking
  • Multi-currency support
  • Widgets for spending summary
Features
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Smart Receipt Scanner and Expense Tracker. Track Reimbursements against your expenses. PDF/CSV/EXCEL export of receipts and expenses. Maintain your receipts across your iPhone and iPads with iCloud sync. Drag and drop images on iPads to quickly create receipts entries. Maintain your Business Travel receipts in different currencies and set exchange rates to later submit your reimbursements. Receiptly is not restricted to only receipts, you can save your vouchers, invoices, or gift cards to keep track of their expiry date. RECEIPTLY: ALL IN ONE Business and Personal Accounting Solution Whether you are an individual trying to track home expenses, groceries, and tracking all the home purchases receipts to claim your warranties or person running a small business. This is one app that is made for you. Organise your receipts and expenses into Categories. Use tags to quickly filter your related receipts or expenses. Quickly saves a photo of receipt or Invoice on the go while shopping. Customises the details regarding receipts for easy search and tracking. App offers widgets to view a quick summary of the store. Medium size widget helps you keep track of top receipts/invoices for selected stores and/or to keep an eye on upcoming warranties of your products. Features: > Smart Scan: Automatically extract the important information from the receipts. > Quick create: Quickly create using a camera or choose from your photo library. Add existing receipts from the photo library. > Support for Apple Shortcut automations! Automatically create expenses whenever you make a payment. > Set home currency for the receipts and have the ability to set the currency for receipt if you are travelling and can set an exchange rate to use for later for reporting. > Track warranties if products added to the receipts and get notifications. > Track Expenses and reimbursements to get a overview of your incoming and outgoing amount. > Beautiful reports to view your expanses. > Export: Export your receipts data to CSV, PDF or even Excel(spreadsheet) to share with accountants. > Widgets: Beautiful widgets to keep an eye on the spending summary on a store or configure the widget to keep track of product warranties. > Easy Organisation: The app helps you keep your receipts in an organized way for easy search. > Product Tracking > Keep an eye on the product warranties. > Tagging: Tag the receipts to search them easily later. You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase to upgrade to plus and you get > Unlimited Smart scans: Unlimited smart scans to easily create receipts. > Export: Export your receipts to share with your tax agents or others. > App Icons: Choose from different app icons of your liking. > Access to the reports for quick summary. For support and suggestions reach at karm.singh@outlook.com • Auto-renewable subscription • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be canceled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Privacy policy: https://receipttrackerapp.com/privacypolicy/ • Terms of use: https://receipttrackerapp.com/termsofuse/

Screenshots

Receipts4 screens
Smart Receipt Scan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Smart Receipt Scan at 4.5 against Receipts's 2.9. Smart Receipt Scan also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (82% vs 63%). Receipts's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Receipts sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Smart Receipt Scan sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smart Receipt Scan holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Receipt Scan has 64 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Receipts's written reviews are positive against 82% of Smart Receipt Scan's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Receipts ships an update every 2 months, Smart Receipt Scan every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Receipts versus Smart Receipt Scan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReceiptsSmart Receipt Scan
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (12 ratings)4.5 (64 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.1% of reviews81.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1264 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTidal Pool SoftwareKarmjit Singh

Customer experience

Receipts

All ratings12 ratings
Positive41.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative41.7%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive63.1%
Neutral4.6%
Negative32.3%

Smart Receipt Scan

All ratings64 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral4.7%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative15.2%

Bugs and requests

Receipts

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Lost data on new phone transfer
  • App crashes when exporting large reports
  • App deleted receipt images
  • Data loss after updates
  • Paid version reverts to basic
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  • Cannot restore previous PRO upgrade
  • App crashes and data is lost
  • Upgrade issues with new iOS versions
  • Inability to attach receipts/photos to reports
  • Receipt data reverts to previous entries
  • Camera function issues

Requested features

6 requests
  • iPad and Mac port
  • UK VAT calculation
  • Cloud storage integration
  • Dark mode
  • More filter options
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  • PDF import

Smart Receipt Scan

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Receipts

One-time2
  • Pro$4.99
  • Pro (upgrade from v4)$4.99
4 purchases

Smart Receipt Scan

Subscriptions2
  • Receiptly Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Receiptly Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • One time purchase$24.99
  • Receiptly Pro - Lifetime$89.99

Questions

Is Receipts free?
Receipts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Smart Receipt Scan free?
Smart Receipt Scan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Receipts or Smart Receipt Scan?
Smart Receipt Scan is rated higher. Receipts averages 2.9 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Smart Receipt Scan averages 4.5 from 64 ratings.
Do Receipts or Smart Receipt Scan have ads?
Neither Receipts nor Smart Receipt Scan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Receipts or Smart Receipt Scan?
Receipts ships an update every 2 months, and Smart Receipt Scan every 2 weeks. Most recently, Receipts was updated on September 23, 2026 and Smart Receipt Scan on September 22, 2026.

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